Show interesting CITY OF CHINA in the north chiefly celebrated for the number of its picture I 1 esque holy men one of the least known cities of china is where sand squalor and ti features yet the place is not without interest lies iles at the edge of a desert in north china and its people art ar most un chloese in appearance it Is sald said that every third man met there is a lamb the chief lama in is as great a personage in the north as the dalal dalai inin lama a half a century ago thousands upon th of lesser lamas adore hini and tens of thousands of the populace in their turg adore lesser leaser lamas there is also a college for the study of religion in so ithac holy men in all stages of holiness are present in great numbers there are frequent festivals with great gre it spinning of prayer wheels and making of offerings and ceremonies of purification culminating in the grotesquely beautiful devil dance by certain of the lamas in their horrible robes and masks the populace is used to the religious atmosphere though thou gli and it is tile the pilgrims from the country round who are chi chiefly efly impressed they include nil all manner of mysterious folks who live on the trackless steppes ste plies of inland asia lier gerders herders ders by trade and doubtless robbers and caravan bandits and its by vocation in most cases |